Background
Kelly, Thomas Howard was born on June 26, 1895 in Fernandina, Florida, United States. Son of William Redmond and Charlotte Grace (Leddy) Kelly.
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Kelly, Thomas Howard was born on June 26, 1895 in Fernandina, Florida, United States. Son of William Redmond and Charlotte Grace (Leddy) Kelly.
Educated Saint Joseph’s Academy, Fernandina, and Mount Saint Mary's Preparatory School, Emmittsburg, Maryland. Student Springhill College, Mobile, Alabama, 1911-1914, Bachelor of Letters, 1917.
Mistress Donald West. Morrison). Entered newspaper work, 1915, with United Press, Washington Herald, later military correspondent Providence Journal, Pawtucket Times and Evening Tribune, Providence. Scenario editor and title writer for United Picture Production Corporation, 1921.
Staff correspondent and sporting editor, Universal Service, et cetera
Associate editor McClure’s and Smart Secretariat magazines, 1928-1929. On staff of Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1930-1931.
Associate editor Sunday Mirror Magazine, 1933. Writer and associate editor Hearst Magazines, 1936.
Executive editor, Drug World, American Druggist, 1937.
Organized Committee on Information for Drug and Cosmetic Industry, 1937, and served as secretary: organized, 1938, and directed United Brewers Industrial Foundations’s public relations advertising program in 14 states. Consel various industries and companies, 1941. General agent Rahr. Malting Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
President The Kelly Company, Chicago, Illinois.
Contributor over 600 stories and articles to magazines from 1922. Enlisted in Battery C, 103d Field Artillery, 26th Division, August 1917.
Served as non-committee officer in France, October 1917-April 1919. Participated in action at Soissons, Toul, Chateau Thierry, Saint Mihiel and Verdun.
Gassed at Chateau Thierry.
Member of the United States Brewers Foundation, Amelia Island History Association. Clubs: Racquet (Saint Louis), Florida Yacht.
Married Mercedes Siuchninska Peine, October 3, 1936.